Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and Dickens: Soul Brothers
English Literature has two inescapably giant figures: William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. We know much about one and almost nothing of the other. This didn’t bother Dickens who found it a ‘great comfort’ that so little was known of Shakespea... -
Hedging with Hamlet and Horatio
How much did Shakespeare know about hedge laying? A considerable amount, according to Trevor Nunn who suggests a reference to hedging may be found in Hamlet's speech to Horatio in Act 5. How much does Trevor Nunn know about hedge laying? I'm not sure i... -
Ivy League Shakespeare: thoughts on Shakespeare and Marvell while clearing ivy and hacking at brambles.
Last autumn Sarah and I bought an acre of eccentrically shaped piece of land at the bottom of our garden. It has an orchard at one end and pasture at the other, but had been abandoned for thirty years, the orchard overgrown with ash trees and thick wit... -
Review: David Hockney at the Royal Academy; Hockney, Shakespeare and the English Pastoral tradition
It is only recently that more people in the world came to be living in urban communities than in the countryside. This represents a profound shift in our relationship with the natural world. We are less rooted. The pattern of our daily lives is less ma...
